Winner will appear in Taste of Home magazine, cook with Carla Hall, and take home $25,000

Smiley Evans

Brought caribbean food in school boards in 1997- 2007 wheelchair I now instruct people with disabilities to get work in professnional kit

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What is your signature dish?

Jamaican my background 1) Jerk Chicken 🐔 Rice & Peas with Colslaw introd to school Cafes in 97. 2) Ginger Green onion Lobster 🦞 & Crab 🦀 steam rice and sweet potatoes. Cherry style cheese cake🥮.

Who is your culinary inspiration?

My culinary inspiration came from my mother is awesome cook also my late Grandmother coming from 1st generation family of seventeen.

What would you do with the $25,000?

If I won the 25 would open spot where l can give people with disabilities a chance and opportunity to work in a professional environment where ofter over looked in society period. Myself being a victim of Gun Violence and now having a disability see the best of both worlds God wanted me to experience.

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